Considering the excellent capability of CS5 to be able to 'Create a matching Sequence' to a clip when it is dragged onto the New Item icon...I wonder why one is still forced to go through the process of setting a Sequence up when initiating a New Project?

(I am aware that one can also create and use a Custom set up at that stage.)

Would be nice if that could be optionally bypassed straight into the application.

When you have x number of sequences open, the workspace remembers that those panels were open. Since when you open a new project the previous workspace is used, you'll see x number of empty timeline panels open.

The workspace remembers which panels were open last time, including timeline panels, which is its job.

The project remembers which workspace was open, but not the specs of that workspace. If you were to close the timeline panels and then create a new sequence-free project, you would not see any timeline panels.

A force more powerful then Premiere controls the workspace behavior across many apps which all have different needs. "Premiere should keep track of open sequences at the project level" is perfectly valid but unlikely in the near future. I want to rephrase that:

edit: We do keep track of the open sequences -- if you have a sequence open, and reopen that project, that sequence will still be open, even if other sequences are in the same project.

I thought that it might apply better here. I also did not wish to incur the wrath of Linus...

Have to say that it's nice having you, Todd and Dennis about, plus the occasional drop-by from Chad. You allow us mere users to glimpse beneath the "hood," and have given us a lot of interesting "whys." Many of us can figure out a bunch of the "hows," but are often left in the dark about the background of those.

Appreciated,

Hunt

PS - Chris Cox does a lot of that in the PS forum, and his comments are always appreciated.

if you have a sequence open, and reopen that project, that sequence will still be open

Not always. If I have six sequences open in project A, close that and create Project B with only 2 sequences (closing the other empty sequence panes), then reopen Project A, I get only two of my six still open, despite having closed it with all six open.

The idea here is to have each project open the same as it was closed, with new projects having no empty sequence panes.